21

8th March '57

Be sure + tell me if you
got the cloak from the Pulaskis

My dearly beloved child

Thank you my beloved for your affection
ate letter _ I grieve to hear of other ill turns to poor baby + that
my darling Cooney too has been so sick _ Thank God! he was
better _ God! grant you will in your next letter be able to say
"all as well as usual." Surely you have had a painful
anxious time. for more than a year you have been watching
+ nursing _ or dreading a return of sickness - Thank God! who has
spared you greater trials. I would say come to your mother
my child but for the wise + proper reasons you give. I know
that dear Williams presence is to you a real blessing at all
times to you + still more so when any of the dear children
are sick _ + when you are blessed with so skillful so kind a
Physician as Dr Sulivan I think you are right to remain + take
your chance of the childrens getting scarlet fever. As yet we
have no fever here _ but there is no knowing when it is to break
out. I get so wild when either my children or grandchildren
are sick _ I am worth for nothing at all. I hope you have a
gold chain on [Toogies?] throat _ If put as close as is comfortable
around the throat I do believe there is a virtue in it _ laugh as
Dr S _ may at old womens fancy. Capt Portell went
to S _ in the St-Johns _ he may see William + may men